Lady Warriors Hold on to Beat Susquehanna
Seventh Straight Marks Program's First Win Over Crusaders
Box Score

SELINSGROVE, Pa. --- Lycoming women’s lacrosse continues to roll through its MAC schedule like an 18-wheeler charging downhill, recording the first victory in the program’s history over Susquehanna University in an 11-9 triumph on Wednesday night.  The Lady Warriors improve to 8-1 overall, 5-0 in conference play.  The Crusaders fall to 4-5, 3-2.

Freshmen Sarah Wingerden (Macedon, N.Y./Palmyra-Macedon) and Kelly Mack (New Egypt, N.J./New Egypt) provided most of the thunder for Lycoming.  Wingerden, the reigning www.womenslacrosse.com Rookie of the Week, assaulted the Crusaders for four goals and an assist for her third straight game with at least four points.  Mack dropped in four goals as well including the first two of the contest.

After Mack’s first two tallies, Wingerden and sophomore Megan Wallenhorst (Rochester, N.Y./Irondequoit) combined for two more to give the Lady Warriors an early 4-0 edge just 6:38 into the contest.  Susquehanna notched a pair to cut the lead in half, and then traded tallies with Lycoming for the remainder of the period.  The blue and gold led 7-5 going into the intermission.

Both teams traded a score at the opening of the second frame to maintain the two-goal difference, but Susquehanna tied the score 8-8 with two straight goals by the 17:45 mark.  Lycoming stormed back behind a goal from Mack and two from Wingerden to move ahead 11-8 with 5:01 to play.  The Crusaders could manage only one more score, preserving the Lady Warriors’ victory.

Aside from Wingerden and Mack’s four tallies, Wallenhorst notched a pair to give her a team-best 41 goals and tying her total from last season.  Freshman Kelli Morsey (Baltimore, Md./Perry Hall) added her fifth goal of the year, and sophomore Heather Suit (Annapolis, Md./Broadneck) picked up her 22^nd assist of the campaign.  Second-year keeper Kristina Peacock (Webster, N.Y./Webster-Thomas) stopped 13 shots in the effort.

Lycoming is next in action on Saturday, April 8, as the Lady Warriors travel to Moravian College.  Game time is set for 1:00 p.m.